Monday, August 16th, 2004
Parlay of the iTunes Music Store and the iPod on iTunes
John Gruber, the creator of the wonderfully simple writing syntax Markdown, has written an insightful article explaining his view that Apple’s current “licensing” situation with the iTunes Music Store (iTMS) is not similar to thier Macintosh OS platform licensing decisions two decades ago.
I agree. Licensing is little related to the value of the iPod — ripping all of your CDs to your computer and using iTunes/iPod to organize and listen to them is the most compelling use of the iTunes/Pod combination. iTMS is just icing on the cake.
